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Narratives of assessment: the newsletter as case study
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)
The purpose of this thesis was to evaluate success of an integrated newsletter assignment for first year Human Resource Management students as an authentic and meaningful form of assessment by tracing and deciphering the ...
Playing with time: the relationship between theatrical timeframe, dramatic narrative and character development in the plays of Alan Ayckbourn
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)
Alan Ayckbourn claims that he has always been facinated by time as an aid to dramatic story telling. The thesis examined how Ayckbourn manipulates the dramatic timeframe, often in an unconventional manner, as a device to ...
Parodic imagination and resistant form in historical fiction: A study of Ann Harries' manly pursuits
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)
In this dissertation, the author examines the historical novel Manly pursuits (1999), by Ann Harries. The novel deals with the late nineteenth century in Oxford, England, and inparticular the year 1899 in Cape Town. The ...
Aspects of narration and voice in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God
(The University of the Western Cape, 2017)
Zora Neale Hurston is a significant figure in American fiction and is strongly associated with
the Harlem Renaissance, the period noted for the emergence of literature by people of
African-American descent. Hurston worked ...
Under the Hibiscus: An eco-critical reading of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s postcolonial novels
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
literature, music and culture”. As this statement suggests, ecocriticism is concerned with more than the representation of environmental questions in literature. It provides a way of examining the intersections and ...
Music memoir as an evocation of cultural legacy: The Zayn Adam story
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
Musicians of colour are under-represented in the South African archive, in part due to the ravages of apartheid and the lack of resources to chronicle their trajectories outside of the production of their music alone.
In ...
Imagining what it means to be ''human'' through the fiction of J.M. Coetzee's Life & Times of Michael K and Cormac McCarthy's The Road
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
Through a literary analysis of two contemporary novels, J.M. Coetzee's Life & Times of
Michael K (1983) and Cormac McCarthy's The Road (2006), in which a common concern
seems to be an exploration of what it means to be ...
The representation of women in four of Naguib Mahfouz's realist novels: Palace walk, Palace of desire, Sugar street and Midaq alley
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)
This thesis involved the various discourses around Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz's representation of women in four of his most well-known novels, which were originally written in Arabic. At the one extreme, he is described ...
Alex La Guma’s short stories in relation to A Walk in the Night: A socio-political and literary analysis
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)
The minithesis provides a detailed socio-political and literary analysis of A Walk in the Night: Seven stories from the streets of Cape Town. It investigates and systematically compares each short story to the novella or ...
African traditional culture and modernity in Zakes Mda’s the heart of redness
(2005)
In my thesis entitled ‘African Tradition and Modernity in Zakes Mda’s The Heart of
Redness’, I analyze the way Western modernity and African traditions interact in
Mda’s novel. I suggest that both modernity and tradition ...